Word: twa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week TWA inaugurated service on both these new runs. The one from Winslow to San Francisco is the more important for three reasons. It was ordered by the Post Office after a ruling by the Interstate Commerce Commission last spring forbidding TWA to expand in that direction (TIME, March 22). It is probably the most scenic flight for its length on any U. S. airline, passing over Grand Canyon, Boulder Dam, Painted Desert, Indian reservations. Death Valley, high Sierras and San Francisco's famed bridges. And by entering San Francisco, TWA breaks United Air's monopoly there...
...TWA's Tomlinson...
TIME regrets mistaking the manner of TWA Pilot Tomlinson's leaving the Navy, from whose Secretary Curtis Dwight Wilbur he received the following sentiments when his honorable resignation was accepted in 1929: "The Department regrets that you find it necessary . . . and will feel the loss of your services. It is hoped that you will enjoy prosperity, health and happiness in civil life...
...same article, TIME misstated the order in which "overweather" ships will be supplied by Boeing Aircraft Co. to TWA and Pan American. Boeing's first two four-motored overland transports will be "stratosphere" ships (air-conditioned for passengers up to 20,000 ft.) for Pan American, designed to embody high flight principles worked out by Pan American research with Boeing engineers since 1929. The next six, for TWA, may be similarly adapted for high altitudes if the 500-hr. test flying required by Pan American on its ships is satisfactory...
...rate. Flying in sleet without sighting land for seven hours, he finally reached the coast, began to "mush" down through for a landing. His aerial was iced and he could not get a fix on the beam at Newark where the ceiling was very low and where TWA officials were biting their nails. So he nonchalantly flew 200 miles out to sea in his land plane to make a second approach. Back over Newark, he still could not get down and gas was nearly gone. Heading toward Princeton, he spotted the first hole in the clouds since Kansas City, dropped...